{"id":1746,"date":"2026-08-01T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:22:28","slug":"uefa-says-it-has-lost-confidence-in-current-fifa-leadership-world-cup-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"UEFA says it has lost confidence in current FIFA leadership | World Cup News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UEFA, who were the strongest opponents of FIFA\u2019s plan, slam the Gianni Infantino-led governing body despite standdown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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European football\u2019s governing body UEFA says it has lost confidence in the sport\u2019s global governing body FIFA under its current leadership.<\/p>\n

UEFA voted on Thursday to boycott FIFA if it did not withdraw its proposal to sell minority shares in World Cups and other events to private investors.<\/p>\n

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced late on Friday that he would be scrapping his FIFA Future Enterprise (FFE) plan following widespread backlash.<\/p>\n

UEFA has welcomed that move in a statement on Saturday, but has gone on to detail it\u2019s criticism of Infantino.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot keep going on like this with secret schemes on fast track timescales, cooked up by faceless individuals and of dubious benefit to the game. We must identify those responsible and hold them to account,\u201d UEFA\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA\u2019s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Gianni Infantino asked for the trust and the votes of FIFA\u2019s member associations to elect him as their president in 2016, he said: \u2018Of course we have to be transparent.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told the assembled stakeholders: \u2018The money of FIFA is your money. It\u2019s not the money of the FIFA president. You are the national associations and the money of FIFA has to serve for the development of football and not for anything else.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cOn both these promises, he has failed to deliver. The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through were anything but transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n

UEFA added that it wants to work with partners and stakeholders to propose new ways of distributing resources through the existing FIFA Forward Programme.<\/p>\n

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